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Global warming spurs calls for new dams in the West
– but where will the water come from to fill them?
by Matt Jenkins,
Apr 30, 2007
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Arizona considers plans to clean up salty irrigation water
without drying out wetlands created by that water.
by Michelle Blank,
Jul 16, 2008
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A new report shows salmon-killing dams would cost less to
remove than to keep.
by Erin Halcomb,
Jul 16, 2008
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Along the upper Gila in New Mexico, conservationists and
the state squabble over managing the river's water.
by Erin Halcomb,
Jul 16, 2008
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Two massive dams on Washington's Elwha River will be
demolished to restore salmon runs.
by Michelle Blank,
Mar 14, 2007
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The Bureau of Reclamation refuses to dismantle Glen Canyon
Dam or drain Lake Powell
by Laura Paskus,
Oct 17, 2005
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In Dam! Water, Power, and Preservation in Hetch
Hetchy and Yosemite National Park, John Warfield Simpson
writes a thorough history of a controversial project
by Stephen J. Lyons,
Oct 03, 2005
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A longtime consultant to the hydropower industry,
biologist Don Chapman, shook the Northwest this summer when he
declared that four dams on the Lower Snake River should be breached
to save the salmon
by Rocky Barker,
Sep 19, 2005
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Nevada is fighting with the four Upper Basin states of
Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico over its right to use water
from the Colorado River’s tributaries, in particular the
Virgin and the Muddy rivers
by Matt Jenkins,
Sep 19, 2005
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A Colorado judge cancels the water right of a private
company that had planned to build the state’s largest dam and
use it to pipe water from the Western Slope to the cities of Denver
and Colorado Springs
by Hilary Watts,
Jul 16, 2008
